Christa Rohde-Dachser

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Christa Rohde-Dachser (2010)

Christa Rohde-Dachser (born March 25, 1937 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German sociologist, psychoanalyst and university professor emeritus . She is the founder of the psychoanalytical institute of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) in Frankfurt and together with Jürgen Körner founded the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin. She was a member of the scientific advisory boards of three specialist journals, co-editor of the journal Psyche and was known for her publications on borderline personality disorder and the psychoanalysis of femininity .

Professional background

Christa Rohde-Dachser is "probably [...] one of the few psychoanalysts who has ever sat behind the wheel of a heavy truck and drove it." In March 2016 , Jochen Kölsch welcomed his conversation partner to an interview in which she provided information about their life path, their personal development and their work in university and other contexts.

Rohde-Dachser grew up as the daughter of entrepreneur Thomas Dachser in the Allgäu . Her father founded the Dachser forwarding company in 1930 - now a large logistics service provider that is still in the third generation of the family in 2016 with her nephew Bernhard Simon . She first studied business administration with a minor in sociology . In 1959 she completed her business studies and worked for two years in her father's company. As head of financial planning and already with power of attorney , she introduced cost accounting, which was not yet installed at the time, against her father's resistance .

“That was too much,” wrote Bernd Mertens in 2008. “After heated arguments with her dad, she decided on an academic career”. Rohde-Dachser gave up her job in the forwarding business again, but remained closely connected to the company in various positions and "even if she was never the boss herself, she still had enormous influence". She was also, for example, Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Directors until 2014 .

After her graduation, with which she also wanted to escape the narrowness of her Catholic environment, she studied sociology and philosophy in Munich, Freiburg and Paris. In Munich she met Johann Jürgen Rohde - a medical sociologist  - with whom she married and had three children. He died in 2001. On the recommendation of Emerich Francis , she completed her doctorate in sociology at the University of Munich in 1967 on the sex education of young people. Then she went to Hanover with her husband, where she initially devoted herself exclusively to her children.

She returned to work through her participation in teacher training . Rohde-Dachser had already encountered Sigmund Freud's teaching during her first degree and was enthusiastic about it. In 1971 she began further training in psychoanalysis in Hanover, which was open to other professional groups as psychologists and doctors until 1976. She first gained the necessary experience with patients in a drug counseling center and later as an intern at the Hannover Medical School . There she received a position in the psychiatric polyclinic , where she subsequently worked for 15 years and qualified as a professor in 1981 in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis . After taking her exams at the psychoanalytical institute in Hanover in 1976, she became a lecturer and participated in the training of the next generation of psychoanalytics. At the same time, she took over the management of further training in psychotherapy for doctors and psychologists at the medical university. In 1981 she was appointed training analyst at the DPG. In 1982 she completed her training as a psychodrama therapist at the Moreno Institute in Überlingen .

Despite a university landscape that was then more male-dominated than it is today, Rohde-Dachser was offered a position at Frankfurt University for the vacant chair of Alexander Mitscherlich in 1987 . She benefited from the fact that she already had the Venia Legendi for exactly those two subjects that this chair was supposed to represent. She held this chair for 16 years until she retired in 2003.

"During all these years in Frankfurt I still tried to stop the decline in psychoanalysis, which was virtually unstoppable on the psychological level and took its course far beyond Frankfurt."

- Christa Rohde-Dachser : in an interview with Jochen Kölsch in 2016

On the occasion of her retirement, Rohde-Dachser organized a symposium at Frankfurt University that she dedicated to the subject of psychoanalysis and creativity . Creativity is "from the point of view of psychoanalysis a process in which the departure from the traditional and the departure for the new, initially still unknown, are creatively combined." Many had come to see it off with a lecture, including Jean-Christophe Ammann , Leon Wurmser , Eva S. Poluda-Korte, Christina von Braun , Mechthild Zeul, Ulrich Oevermann , Marina Gambaroff and Hermann Lang . Rohde-Dachser published their lectures in a book, the title of which alludes to the ability of creativity to create the unspeakable, and for the cover of which they chose the departure of Paul Klee's ships as a symbol of farewell .

Scientific work

The so-called borderline disorder was a focus of the scientific work at Rohde-Dachser . Little was known about them in the early 1980s. Her interest in it had been aroused by her patients, whom she sought to understand in their often contradicting symptoms. Karl Peter Kisker , her boss at the time, had encouraged her to summarize her studies in a habilitation. The resulting book The Borderline Syndrome was published in 2004 in its seventh edition. The disorder was thus "made known in the German and European scene", as Kölsch mentioned in his interview. In 2009 she received the Margit Egnér Prize for her scientific contributions to the research and therapy of borderline disorders .

Another focus of her scientific work was the topic of femininity. The starting point was her experience with male colleagues at the university who, according to Rohde-Dachser, “can do much better with aggression”. Among other things, she had collected interviews with men and women of different ages across Germany over a longer period of time in order to find out how the two sexes differ in expressing their wishes and implementing them. Supplemented by further research, she finally brought out another book along with other publications on this subject, which she named Expedition to the Dark Continent in allusion to Freud . In it she shows "the collective unconscious fantasies that underlie the definitions of femininity in patriarchal society and at the same time the psychoanalytic discourse of gender difference." This book was received quite differently by both sexes and elicited harsh criticism from their male colleagues.

“Truly - a ghostly scenario, whose close relationship with the author's self-analytically deciphered inner life (Freud as a model!) Would have breathed more life into reading the book than the stencils that the author tries to carry around and to imagine 'the' women to be freed from male supremacy as the potentially completely different. "

- Bernd Nitzschke : Time online

Susanne Kitlitschko also formulated criticism in her review, but in the end came to the conclusion that Rohde-Dachser had set out "with the right questions", "which thanks to her book can and should be widely discussed."

The psychoanalytic cultural theory , which Freud occupied even more than the treatment of patients, also caught the interest of Rohde-Dachser. At the university, she initiated a series of lectures lasting several years under the title Zeitdiagnosen . She invited well-known psychoanalytic colleagues and published their lectures on current affairs in five books, the title of which refers to the lecture series of the same name. The last was published in 1995 under the title Love and War .

In addition, Rohde-Dachser dealt with the relationship between psychoanalysis and film as part of her cultural-theoretical studies:

“It reflects the individual and collective unconscious fantasies of modernity. And he constantly produces new myths that take the place of the worn-out religious narratives and fill them with new content. "

- Rohde-Dachser : film reviews

On her website, Rohde-Dachser makes her texts on seven films available, which she discussed from a psychoanalytical point of view and some of which she published in scientific publications . It dealt with Blue Velvet , All About My Mother , My Son's Room , Talk To Her , Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring , Lost in Translation and Dead Man . With increasing age, her interest in cultural theory shifted to the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion.

Foundation of an institute

In 1981 Rohde-Dachser was appointed training and control analyst of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG). After following the call of the University of Frankfurt in 1987, she began preparing for the establishment of a DPG institute in the city, which did not yet exist at the time. To do this, she needed the approval of the specialist society. In 1994, together with a few colleagues, she was able to found the Institute for Psychoanalysis of the German Psychoanalytic Society in Frankfurt, of which she was chairman for ten years.

Establishing a university

In 2012, Manuela Heim called behavior therapy the “favorite child” of academic psychology. As a result, psychoanalysis got into a "vicious circle". “Where should the next generation of psychoanalytic professors and researchers come from?” She quoted Rohde-Dachser, who had drawn a “radical conclusion” after “13 years in academic teaching”: “The entrepreneur founded her own university with 6 million euros in endowment capital for psychoanalysis. "

With the inheritance from his father, Rohde-Dachser initially set up the Foundation for the Promotion of University Psychoanalysis . The background to this was a development to which Heim had alluded and which had led to the fact that psychological chairs were less and less filled with psychoanalysts for many years. In 2014 the foundation received the Science Foundation of the Year award .

With the help of the foundation , Rohde-Dachser financed the first psychoanalytical university in Germany. In 2009 she founded the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin together with Jürgen Körner .

“This was intended to create an academic location for psychoanalysis within the German university landscape, in which it has been pushed back more and more by the scientific orientation of academic psychology in recent decades, in which teaching and research are not only psychological but also psychoanalytic The basis could grow and prosper again. "

- Rohde-Dachser : IPU

The university has been accredited and officially recognized since 2014 . Rohde-Dachser is Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees , Tilo Eith is her deputy. The IPU has developed over the years. In the 2015/16 winter semester there were 583 students and 112 research assistants, 59 of whom were permanent employees. In order to give less well-off interested parties the opportunity to study, a financing model was developed that is offered under the term reverse generation contract. The course is financed for the participants in this program and “in return” they pay back a “percentage share” for “financing additional study places” as soon as they “have a minimum income”.

Memberships

In addition to her academic work in research and teaching at the university, Rohde-Dachser was also involved in other contexts. She was a member of numerous specialist societies, including the DPG and, since 2001, the International Psychoanalytic Association . From 1988 to 1998 she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks .

In 1992 she became co-editor of the magazine Psyche founded in 1947 by Alexander Mitscherlich . She performed this task until 2012. In addition, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the journal Forum der Psychoanalyse . Together with Otto F. Kernberg , Anne-Marie Sandler , André Haynal , Ulrich Moser and Henri Parens, she was a member of the advisory board of the book series Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century.

Fonts

  • Destroyed mirror. Psychoanalytic diagnoses of time . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-525-01414-7 .
  • Damage. Psychoanalytic diagnoses of time . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-525-01420-1 .
  • In the shade of the cherry tree. Psychoanalytic Dialogues . Huber, Bern / Göttingen / Toronto / Seattle 1994, ISBN 3-456-82515-3 .
  • About love and war. Psychoanalytic diagnoses of time . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-01427-9 .
  • with Margarete Mitscherlich : Psychoanalytic discourses on femininity from Freud to today . Verlag Internationale Psychoanalyse, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-91784-5 .
  • Expedition to the dark continent. Femininity in the Discourse of Psychoanalysis . Psychosocial, Gießen 2003, ISBN 3-89806-092-6 .
  • Shaping the unspeakable. About psychoanalysis and creativity . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-46181-X .
  • The borderline syndrome . 7th edition. Hans Huber, Bern / Göttingen / Toronto / Seattle 2004, ISBN 3-456-84087-X .
  • with Franz Wellendorf (Ed.): Staging of the Impossible. Theory and Therapy of Severe Personality Disorders . Psychosocial, Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8379-2497-8 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

interview

Christa Rohde-Dachser in an interview with Jochen Kölsch . As part of the alpha forum by ARD-alpha, BR , first broadcast on March 9, 2016. Video (only available in Germany, duration 44:16 minutes), transcript in the BR archive , PDF; 121.15 kB. The following page numbers refer to the transcript.

  1. Kölsch Interview 2016 , p. 1
  2. Kölsch Interview 2016 , p. 3
  3. Kölsch Interview 2016 , p. 5
  4. a b Kölsch Interview 2016 , p. 4
  5. Kölsch Interview 2016 , p. 6
  6. Kölsch Interview 2016 , p. 6: “Because Freud described what happens to women, what women deal with and what women want, as a 'dark continent' for himself in his publications. That's why I chose this heading. "

Further

  1. a b Bernd Mertens: The Prize Winner 2008: Bernhard Simon. Two clans and one leader. (PDF; 319 kB) In: The family entrepreneur of the year. Impulse, Intes, p. 26 , accessed on February 24, 2017 .
  2. Video interview - Bernhard Simon (Dachser GmbH). In: Impulse. January 16, 2012, accessed on February 24, 2017 (nephew of Rohde-Dachser, duration: 2:09 minutes).
  3. Bernd Mertens: The Prize Winner 2008: Bernhard Simon. Two clans and one leader. (PDF; 319 kB) In: The family entrepreneur of the year. Impulse, Intes, p. 29 , accessed on February 24, 2017 .
  4. a b c Brigitte Nölleke: Christa Rohde-Dachser. In: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  5. Anja Kühne: Universities remain male. The proportion of female professors is only increasing slowly. In: Der Tagesspiegel. December 22, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2017 : “At universities in Germany, men hold 80 percent of the professorships. The proportion of women in professorships is only increasing slowly - by an average of 0.76 percent per year. "
  6. Shaping the unspeakable - through psychoanalysis and creativity. Science Information Service, March 11, 2002, accessed on February 23, 2017 .
  7. Christa Rohde-Dachser (ed.): Shaping the inexpressible. About psychoanalysis and creativity . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-525-46181-5 .
  8. Christa Rohde-Dachser: The borderline syndrome . 7th edition. Huber, Bern / Göttingen / Toronto / Seattle 2004, ISBN 978-3-456-84087-1 .
  9. Bernd Nitzschke: The woman as the head birth of the man. Two studies on psychoanalytic and pornographic images of femininity. In: time online. April 10, 1992. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  10. Susanne Kitlitschko: Rohde-Dachser, Christa: Expedition in the dark continent. Femininity in the Discourse of Psychoanalysis. Berlin u. a .: Springer, 1991. (PDF) In: Journal für Psychologie. 1994, pp. 87-88 , accessed February 23, 2017 .
  11. Ernst Falzeder, Eva Brabant (ed.): Sigmund Freud - Sándor Ferenczi. Correspondence . 1917-1919. tape III , no. 2 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 978-3-205-99099-4 , letter 1161 F, Vienna, April 27, 1929 : “The last mask of resistance to analysis, the medical-professional one, is that for the future most dangerous. ” See also: The discomfort in culture
  12. ^ Christa Rohde-Dachser: Film reviews. Retrieved February 23, 2017 (With links to seven movie reviews).
  13. Christa Rohde-Dachser: Blue Velvet. (PDF; 468.51 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  14. Christa Rohde-Dachser: Everything about my mother. (PDF; 2.518 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  15. Christa Rohde-Dachser: My son's room. (PDF; 292.19 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  16. Christa Rohde-Dachser: Talk to her. (PDF; 1.741 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  17. Christa Rohde-Dachser: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring. (PDF; 178.07 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  18. ^ Christa Rohde-Dachser: Lost in Translation. (PDF; 1.031 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  19. Wolfgang Gephart, Christa Rohde-Dachser: Homecoming in a halo. A psychoanalytic take on the film Dead Man . (PDF; 410.39 kB) In: Psychoanalysis and Film. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  20. Death drive, ideas of God and the desire for immortality in the bi-logic of Matte Blancos. A psychoanalytic study. In: Psyche . tape  63 , no. 9/10 , 2009, pp. 973–998 ( rohde-dachser.de [PDF; 249 kB ; accessed on February 23, 2017]).
  21. ^ Institute for Psychoanalysis Frankfurt. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  22. Manuela Heim: Freud still has a couch in Berlin. In: taz. February 12, 2012, accessed February 23, 2017 .
  23. ^ Martin Teising : IPU News. High distinction for Prof. Rohde-Dachser. Retrieved on February 25, 2017 : "The aim of the foundation is to bring out the psychoanalysis with its focus on unconscious processes that has been neglected in university psychology in the past few years in favor of behavioral approaches."
  24. Edith Kresta: Stupid prejudices about Freud. In: taz. January 12, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2017 : "The paradox begins at the universities: almost only behavior therapy is taught, although both methods, behavioral therapy and psychoanalysis, are recognized by health insurers in Germany."
  25. ^ Martin Teising: IPU News. High distinction for Prof. Rohde-Dachser. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 25, 2018 ; accessed on February 23, 2017 : “The prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, will be awarded at the sixth German Science Gala on March 24, 2014 in Frankfurt. The 'Foundation for the Promotion of University Psychoanalysis' is the first recipient of the 'Science Foundation of the Year' award, which the German University Foundation (DUS) and the Dr. Jürgen Rembold Foundation for the Promotion of Civic Engagement. "
  26. Study the soul. In: Der Spiegel. July 13, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  27. Christa Rohde-Dachser: International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU) - the first university for psychoanalysis in Germany. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  28. ^ Accreditation committee of the Science Council: Statement on the accreditation of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin. (PDF; 342.42 kB) October 24, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2017 : “That the IPU only succeeded four years after its foundation in the ERASMUS funding of the European Union and in the PROMOS program of the DAAD To be accepted means a considerable success for the university, which is still under construction. (P. 53) "
  29. Committees. Board of Trustees. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  30. Students at universities in Berlin winter semester 2015/2016. Part 2: Detailed Results. (PDF; 518.43 kB) Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, 2016, p. 14 , accessed on February 25, 2017 .
  31. Scientific staff. In: IPU website. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  32. The Reverse Generational Contract (UGV). In: IPU website. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  33. On the person. In: Christa Rohde-Dachser's website. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
  34. Professor Christa Rohde-Dachser receives the Federal Cross of Merit. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine . 20th May 2019